Systems Engineer integrating Octasic’s hardware, software, RF, and networking platforms. Translating customer mission needs into deployable solutions and leading verification and validation.
About the role
- Systems Architect designing coherent optical pluggables for Nokia’s AI-era optical networking portfolio. Defining architectures, requirements, and standards-based solutions with cross-functional engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and architecture of novel coherent optical pluggables
- Architect and implement a new coherent optical portfolio for Nokia platforms and other hosts
- Develop product architectures and requirements for packet-optical telecommunications products based on business requirements, use cases, and OIF, ITU, and IEEE standards
- Evaluate trade-offs among cost, functionality, capacity, and performance
- Work with Product Line Management to define system and product concepts, features, requirements, customer use cases, and experience expectations
- Translate product requirements into system architectural specifications
- Collaborate with architects, ASIC designers, optical front-end designers, and hardware/software developers
- Lead cross-functional feature teams and build consensus on product architecture and technical concepts
- Support software development teams with architecture guidance and maintain implementation alignment
- Document product architecture, requirements, and concepts in clear, concise specifications
- Investigate feature requests and customer requirements, propose solutions, and assess feasibility
- Collaborate with product documentation teams on customer documentation and operational concepts
Requirements
- Broad systems knowledge garnered by years of experience specifying and/or leading architectural specifications across multi-disciplines
- Ability to think big-picture and deliver high quality requirements/architecture specifications for end-to-end integrated systems
- Experience defining requirements for Fault Management, Performance Management, Configuration Management, Service Provisioning and Control Plane features of multi-layer networking products, especially L0 and L1 layers
- Experience with optical networking technologies and standards including OTN, Ethernet, and MACsec encryption
- Familiarity with CMIS, C-CMIS, and OIF specifications
- Experience designing and validating link-level control algorithms and optical performance monitoring
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Usage of modern AI tools such as Cursor and AI-SDLC
- Advanced graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or equivalent education
- Ph.D. plus minimum 8 years of relevant work experience, or M.Sc. plus minimum 12 years of relevant work experience in optical transport systems or related telecommunications fields
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